The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-03
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Henry Georges new dispensation is like the
bag of gold at the end of the ranbow.-Balti-
more American
1t is pity that Ohio couldn't have been
moved for a few hours out of Grover Cleveiand's
way.-Ceveland Leader.
EVERY day or two little pernicious activity
crops out in the appointment of postmasters.
-Philadephia American.
The Massachusetts mugwump is now hitching
along to the Republican row OF seats. he
is ready TO tell his ex perence Detroit Tribune.
GENERAL depression" is what ais the whisky
trade. it is said That is the only kind OF trade
depression of which the country cannot have too
much. Chicago Journal
PERHAPS President Cleveland will be renom-
mated. IF So it will be not because he is rich in
merit, but because his party is poor lie available
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Press.
IT'S time to- start Know nothing party in
England, and cry England for the English"
Polydore de Keyser has jnst been elected Lord
Mayor of LONDONDERRY York Star.
1.-THE Democratic party is looking up" shouts
a Cleveland organ. which Is rather unique way
of saying that the Democratic party is its
back instead of it's feet.-Detrot Tribune.
Indiana Democrats claim tn at their new Sem
ator-elect. Turpie, will be a match for Senator
ingalls, in his peculiar line of oratory. Mr..
Turpie is not Senator yet.-Boston Journal
IF Henry George would up of his
anti-poverty societies In this town after the
races close he could gain the attention OF an
army of broken ''plungers. "-Lousville Com
mercial.
There is another call. long and loud and deep,
for the dismissal of Attorney general Garland.
but the President needs it not. He is bound to
Garland by the same mysterious tie that holds
him to German and Higgins = Phlladelphia
Press.
THE mugwumpis useful in his way. but he
should be made to keep his place. That place
is not in the parlor where the family confer
is held. but in another and not quite SO
pleasant part of the house. Eagle,
(Dem.l
49, lad
by nonsense on economic theories, mean well.
but they don't know He IN whose name they
speak did have any scheme for aboiishing
poverty, but content to remain poor him.
self-Boston Herald.
THERE is no sound reason why existing disa-
bility not a result of service in the army or
navy, should have been accepted by the fresi-
dent as a valid ground for pensioning Veterans
of the Mexican war, and then rejected as
ground for pensioning veterans OF the war
for the Union.-New York Sun.
As candidate of the Progressive Labor party
in New York for Secretary of State. it ought to
be comfort TO John Swinton to feel sure that
the result of the election will not interfere IN the
slightest degree with plans he may have
made heretofor. for his own progressive labor as
private citizen.-Chicago Tribune.
THE moral of the verdict of the federal courts
in the telephone suits is simply this That any
attempt by the A ttorney general to convert the
Department of Justice into a department. OF IN
Justice in the interest of syndicate or specu-
lators will receive the judicial rebuke which It's
wickedness deserves. -Phiiadelphla Press
THE Anarchists and Socialists have poor
idea of the firmness and moral courage OF the
American people, or they would not nope TO
benefit their convicted brethren in Chicago by
threats of dire vengeance case they are hung
| Governor Dick" Oglesby is the last man TO be
moved by such threats.-New York Tribune
THE extraordinary severity of tho sentence
| inflicted upon Kansas druggists clerk for sell
| ing liquor will do more to bring prohibition into
| disfnvor than a thousand speeches in opposition.
/ To send a man 80 jail for seventeen years. he-
| sioes ining hun $40 000 Is to put the ohenss on